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Not sure which Asians you're taking about. Certainly not Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, for example, whose cities are generally cleaner than Western counterparts

• rorykoehler 8y ago
  Philippines and India primarily.
• BurningFrog 8y ago
  From the article: > China is at the top of list of ocean plastic polluters, accounting for 28 percent the total amount of plastics thrown into the oceans each year. About 60 percent of plastics in the oceans are discarded by the fast growing East Asian economies of China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
• jlawson 8y ago
  Those countries you mentioned are under ~5% of the Asian total. The poster above is talking about the other 95%. Asia is 4.5 billion people. The Asian population is over four times that of all the Western countries combined.